Oakbank School
Free school · ages 11–16 · no sixth form
Below average on every headline measure — 10th of 10 for average grade in Wokingham.
Reading · Wokingham · one of 10 state secondaries
Summary
Oakbank School sits 10th of 10 state secondaries in Wokingham for average GCSE grade. 57.6% of its pupils passed both English and maths, against 77.3% across Wokingham. 38% reached the stronger grade 5 in both. Subject by subject it is furthest clear of Wokingham in media studies, sat by 10% of the year,, and furthest behind in geography and combined science. Ofsted: Inspected in November 2024, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
It is a free school of 300 pupils, taking ages 11 to 16. 35.3% of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, a high share by national standards, and 22.8% are on SEN support with a further 2.2% holding an education, health and care plan. 16.3% were entered for the full EBacc, fewer than the 50.8% entered across Wokingham, which is a choice about how broad a curriculum to push, and 6.5% took the separate sciences rather than combined. 79.2% of its leavers went on to further education.
Subject comparisons are measured at grade 4 or above against Wokingham, and count as ahead or behind only where the gap is wider than the year-to-year swing that entry group would produce.
The school·Wokingham
Inspection
Placed in special measures
Graded by area
Inspected November 2024
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Inadequate
- Leadership and management
- Inadequate
- Personal development
- Inadequate
- Quality of education
- Inadequate
- November 2024 Full inspection
Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade in September 2024.
GCSE · Key stage 4·2024/25
Oakbank School converted to an academy in September 2025 and was given a new reference number. The Department for Education files results against the record a school held when its pupils sat their exams, so these are published under its previous one, Oakbank.
Attainment
16%
Entered for the EBacc the academic core of subjects
well below average
Wokingham 51% · England 41%
After Year 11
79% stayed in education, 3% started an apprenticeship (2022/23 leavers)
GCSE results by subject
2024/25 · share reaching grade 4 or above · a standard pass, the old grade C
Every bar is on the same 0–100% scale, so subjects can be read against each other as well as against the county and England. A dash means the figure does not exist rather than being zero. The county and England lines cover state-funded schools only, the same schools you can browse here, because independent schools sit outside the Department for Education's subject release and outside this site.
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What these mean
- Attainment 8
- The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
- Grades 4 and 5
- GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
- The EBacc
- A combination of subjects rather than a qualification in its own right: English, Maths, the Sciences, a Language, and History or Geography. The figure shows the share of pupils entered for all the EBacc subject areas, so it gives an indication of how widely a school enters pupils for this particular combination of subjects.
- Progress 8
- A measure of how much progress pupils make between the end of primary school and the end of GCSE, rather than simply what grades they achieve. It takes pupils' prior attainment into account, making it useful for comparing schools with different intakes. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 because the pupils concerned did not have Key Stage 2 tests that can be used as the normal starting point.
- Percentage points
- The gap between two percentages. A subject going from 30% to 36% has risen six percentage points, though it has risen by a fifth. We write "pp" to keep the two apart.
- Why some subjects say nothing
- A year group is small. Where a gap is no bigger than the swing a different intake would produce, we say the subjects are level rather than dressing chance as a finding. Two kinds of subject carry no share at all: a vocational award has no 9-to-1 grade to report, and some qualifications are not published on the 9-to-1 scale for a given year group, most often community languages sat outside the school's own timetable.
- Persistent absence
- The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
School details
Hyde End Lane
Ryeish Green
Hyde End Lane
Reading
Berkshire
RG7 1ER
- Head
- Robert Gerrard
- Trust
- Greenshaw Learning Trust
- Pupils
- 300
- Free school meals
- 35%
- SEND
- 23% on SEN support, 2% with an EHC plan
- Separate sciences
- 7% of the year
- Progress 8
- Not published · last -0.38 in 2023/24
Other schools in Wokingham
9 schools. Distances are straight-line from this school.
- Maiden Erlegh School 4.8 km
- Bohunt School Wokingham 5.6 km
- The Bulmershe School 6.6 km
- The Forest School 6.9 km
- The Emmbrook School 8.1 km
- The Holt School 8.6 km
- Waingels 8.7 km
- St Crispin's School 9.9 km
- The Piggott School 11.7 km